Chapter 244: , The French Experience (1)

A month later, Feijin was sitting in a carriage belonging to Jage Goreng with the logo of the French Embassy and entered the VIP waiting room on the pier directly from the VIP passage.
It is relatively safe to board the ship from here. After all, Fagin is a wanted criminal in the UK, and if he is caught, he will definitely go to the gallows. Of course, going up from an ordinary passage is actually not particularly dangerous, although there are pictures of a large group of wanted criminals hanging there, including Fei Jin. Fei Jin knew many people there. However, including Fei Jin himself, Fei Jin has never seen even a picture of a wanted man painted alike, and some of the portraits even have the wrong gender.
In addition to these portraits, they were blown and sun-dried, and did not change for a long time, and the color faded so badly that they almost couldn't be seen clearly. But Fei Jin knows that these portraits are still very useful, at least for the police masters. Relying on these people who look so similar to everyone and have so different portraits, they can pick out those who do not take the VIP channel to board the boat (most of them have no background and are easy to bully). , Then said: "You look like Feijin. We want to take you back to investigate."
At this time, someone who is more acquainted will directly take out the money and bribe the police master, and then he will naturally not look like Feijin; as for the ignorant, he will be dragged to the bureau, afraid that he will not know the face? Isn’t it the last thing that makes him acquainted? Therefore, the portrait of criminals on the wanted order is a technical job. The most important point of it is that the painting must be similar to all people, and it must be different from all people.
But walking from the VIP channel, there will never be such trouble. You know, the people who walk from here are all people with faces and faces. If the police in the United Kingdom are as fierce as Bit Tosa when they face the poor (of course, these two species do not yet exist); then they When facing the "decent people" here, he was as meek as a pug. They are even more docile and more human than pugs.
It was also the first time that Fagin was waiting for boarding in the waiting room of the so-called "decent man". He looked around and felt that he did not fit in with the atmosphere here. Most of the passengers here are followed by servants. They are now sitting on the sofa, and every move is served by servants. As for Feijin, he dragged a large box (this slightly decent box and the decent clothes on his body were all given to him by Jager Goreng.), the so-called " The smell of vulgarity.
Those "decent people" in the waiting room just glanced at him and saw his thick hands, red, wrinkled, rough face like sandpaper, and decent clothes on him. Immediately made such a judgment: nouveau riche.
However, although most "decent people" have a sense of superiority from the heart when facing "upstarts", they all know that it is not wise to expose such superiority. It is not without reason that most "upstarts" can become "upstarts". These people can break out. Apart from luck, all of them are excellent guys. It is not wise to offend them without a conflict of interest.
For this reason, even though Fei Jin looked like an old hat, the stories of pretending to be forced to slap in the face that the broad masses of people liked did not happen.
Fagin looked around, trying to find a place to sit down. He suddenly saw that, not far from the fireplace, a young man dressed like ordinary people, compared to him, and even more out of place in this luxurious waiting room, was sitting there alone.
Maybe he didn't like the sour taste on that person, so other decent people were sitting far away from him. But this was exactly what Fagin needed, so he walked over and said to the young man, "Can I sit here?"
The young man smiled honestly and replied in non-standard English: "Of course."
So Fagin sat down beside the young man and chatted with him.
"My name is Colia, a Londoner, and I am going to see Paris. Listening to your accent, you don't seem to be English?" Fagin said, reaching out to the man.
"Grandet, I am French." The man also reached out and shook Fagin, and Fagin noticed that his hands were full of calluses.
"Looking at these hands, it looks like a craftsman."
Thinking about this, Fagin continued to chat with the young man. Soon, he inquired that this Frenchman named Grandet was a businessman. He made a fortune during the French Revolution. Now he has just made a big deal in Britain and he is about to return to China by boat.
"Nowadays ferry tickets are really expensive." Grandet said, "The price of a ticket can match my previous monthly income. If it is not because the company bought the ferry tickets on behalf of me, we have to pay for it ourselves I won’t buy it even if I’m killed. Well, Mr. Colia, what are you going to do in France?"
"Let's go to Paris first and see if there is any chance of getting rich," Feikin replied. He can't tell people, I will go to Paris to see if the revolution has benefited the people, then go to Toulon, learn the theory and techniques of rebellion, then go to Ireland, connect theory with practice, and then come back...
The decent people around listened to it and estimated that they would immediately call the police, and the police would arrest themselves with the highest efficiency.
When he said to everyone that what he was going to do in the future might be a head-off thing, Buck said disapprovingly: "Who here has never done a head-off thing?"
At that time, Fei Jin replied, "This is different." But he didn't elaborate on the difference. Fei Jin knows that if he is caught by the police now, he will definitely lose his head, but the police will not spend too much effort to catch him. Of course it is good if he can be caught, and it doesn't matter if he cannot. But once he is on that path, the entire police system will treat him as an enemy that must be captured. The police in London are not all stupid hats. They could not catch him before. In many cases, it was just because the police felt that arresting him was not an urgent matter.
But his answer made Grandet excited. Grandet told him that because of the low prices of British textiles, there is quite a market in France, and some French things, such as red wine, are also very popular in the UK. He is from Somo himself, and Somo also produces red wine, which is of good quality. Not worse than the Bordeaux area. As long as the logo of Bordeaux is affixed, even the French can't taste the difference.
"If Mr. Corlia is interested in the wine business, you can contact me when you arrive in France." Grandet also left Feijin with a mailing address.
At this time, the time for sailing is approaching, and VIPs always board the ship first. Fagin got on the boat with Grandet. It just so happens that their boxes are also adjacent to each other.
This naturally gave Grandet the opportunity to continue to sell various products to Fagin. During the conversation, he gradually discovered that Mr. Colia was neither familiar with wine or anything, nor seemed to care too much, but he was I am very interested in weapons and knives. So he told Feijin that he knew a lot of weapon merchants and could help him contact these trades...
It was not far from England to France, and two days later, the ship called at Calais. Grande and Fei Jinyi bid farewell to each other and boarded the mail train to Lorraine. Before leaving, he kept telling the fee, if you want to do business, you must not forget him.
Fagin also got on a post car to Paris and was finally able to get rid of Grandet, which made him feel quite relieved.
The post car was running on the roads of France. It was still winter and the fields were deserted. Generally speaking, at this time, it is the leisure time that farmers rarely have in the year, and there is nothing to do. They usually cat in their house, waiting for the winter to pass. The wilderness should be very quiet at this time.
However, Feijin saw large groups of farmers busy in the fields more than once as the post truck ran.
"What are they doing?" Fagin asked the others in the mail truck in his unskilled French.
"Draining a canal." A businessman who looked like a businessman replied, "This is a member of the Veterans Association, leading the villagers to dig the canal while it is all right now."
"Ah~EbookFREE.me~ Do you have to work so hard in the winter?" Fei Jin said.
"It's hard work, but it's worth it." The businessman replied, "It is said that those in the Veterans Association have access to electricity pumps. So they only need to dig the canals in winter and wait until the wheat needs watering. At that time, as soon as the electric water pump was turned on, large tracts of wheat fields were poured. This summer, some rural areas have already used this thing, as a result, the output of those wheat has increased by a large amount. I listened The farmers in those places already eat white bread by themselves."
"The days of the farmers are really much better now." Another person interrupted, "Now there are no nobles, although the country’s tax revenue is nominally more than that of the kingdom back then. But because there is no land rent from the nobles, In fact, there are still a lot more left for the farmers than before. In addition, the water pumps, and the Veterans Association also specially invited experts to teach the technology. Alas, after the revolution, the lives of these farmers have really improved. "
"So what is the situation of the poor in France?" Fagin asked again.
"In the city? The poor are also working hard. In other words, it may be harder than before. Although not as good as before the revolution, but finally there is bread to eat. Well, when you arrive in Paris, you can go and see for yourself." The businessman replied.